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Flaws v. Foreign. For next season, Papp has scheduled two plays by off-Broadway Negro Playwright Adrienne Kennedy, and has commissioned Negro Actor Ossie Davis and Composer Gait MacDermot to do a contemporary musical on the race question. "I also have," says Papp, "an adaptation of Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. But what I'm really looking for is American plays. I'd rather do flawed American plays than outstanding foreign plays...
...hope of the American theater has sometimes been placed in off-Broadway: in terms of sustained achievement this amounts to wistful thinking. Of the several playwrights who got their start off-Broadway, only Edward Albee has remotely fulfilled his promise. But since Virginia Woolf, his work has persistently dwindled in strength or substance. For one thing, Albee has developed a galloping case of adaptationitis, culling plots, characters and even dialogue from other writers' novels and plays. More surprisingly, he has lost the forked tongue that contributed so much to the venomous delight of Virginia Woolf. Albee unquestionably...
While hippiedom onstage may last no longer than its cultists, nudity could prove more durable. On-and off-Broadway, this has been the year of naked truth. It reflects the widening moral latitude of U.S. society, and represents the theater's attempt to recover that adult freedom of expression which films have pre-empted in recent years. Sometimes stage nudity is irrelevant, as in Bruce Jay Friedman's Scuba Duba, where a woman, both topless and pendulous, runs purposelessly down a flight of stairs. On the other hand, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it enhances...
...first season as impresario of off-Broadway's Public Theater, Producer Joseph Papp has rocked his subscribers with the original production of Hair (see above), shocked them with a freewheeling fantasia on the theme of Hamlet, and socked them with the allegorical, enigmatical Ergo (TIME, March 8). The theater's latest offering, spiky satire from Czechoslovakia called The Memorandum, winds up its season with a nervous laugh...
While Endecott and the Red Cross, at the off-Broadway American Place Theater, is not really a play, it is a variety of some other distinctly interesting things. Based on two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is a kind of animated syllabus on the making of the New England mind, and a soul-scorching look at the Calvinistic implacability of the Puritan temper. It contains the implicit suggestion that in the despoliation and murder of the Indians was born a legacy of violence that has remained a melancholy strand of American life...